CROOKE, SAMUEL, eldest son of Samuel Crooke, New House, Boxford, Suffolk, and St. Kitts, West Indies, and Sarah Milward, widow; nephew of Michael Crooke (qv); b.; adm. (aged 11) Oct 1752 (Watts'); in school list 1754; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 10 Mar 1757, matr. Easter 1757; adm. Middle Temple 24 Jan 1760; m. 31 Mar 1772 Mary Duport.
Croome, Victor, son of Arthur Capel Molyneux Groome, of Pimlico, by Helen Radley, daughter of Sir William Hardman, Kt., of Norbiton Hall, Surrey; b. Nov. 30, 1899; adm. Sept. 25, 1913 (G); left July 1917; Probationary Flying Officer R. N. A. S. Oct. 24, 1917; Flying Officer R.A.F. Aug. 1919; Flight-Lieut. July 1928; Wing-Cdr. July 1, 1939; temp. Group-Capt. Sept. 1, 1941; retired with rank of Group-Capt. Jan. 20, 1944; resident in Tanganyika; m. May 16, 1926, Hilda Maud, daughter of William Rooks, of Ilkley, Yorks.
CROONE, HENRY, son of Henry Croone, London, wine merchant (for father’s occupation see Busby’s Account Book 27 Apr 1664), and Anne, dau. of Richard Hiller, Beddington, Surrey; b.; adm.; KS 1637; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1640, matr. 3 Jul 1640, aged 17, Westminster Student to ejection 1648, restored 1660; BA 1644; MA 23 Jan 1646/7; Faculty Student, Ch. Ch., 1662-7, 1679-81, void on marriage; adm. Middle Temple (as Croome) 8 Nov 1641; Judge Advocate of the Fleet 29 Jul 1680 - 23 May 1689; lic. to m. 27 Jun 1681 Catherine, widow successively of Rev. John Doughty DD, Prebendary of Westminster, and of Sir Thomas Heath, Kt., Stoke, near Guildford, Surrey; buried Cloisters, Westminster Abbey 14 Jun 1689.
Cross, Arthur Geoffrey Neale, Baron Cross of Chelsea, son of Arthur George Cross, quantity surveyor, of Chelsea, and Mary Elizabeth Neale, d. of Sir Cornelius Neale Dalton KCMG CB, of Hampstead; b. 1 Dec. 1904; adm. Sept. 1917 (KS); left July 1922; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. 1922 (open schol.), BA 1925 (1st class hons Classical Tripos pts 1 & 2), MA 1929; Craven Schol. and Student 1925, Harmsworth Law Schol. 1926; Fellow of Trinity 1927; called to the Bar (Middle Temple) Jan. 1930; KC 1949; Bencher Middle Temple 1958; Chancellor of the County Palatine of Durham 1959; Kt 1960; Judge of the High Court, Chancery Divn, 1960-9; PC 1969; Lord Justice of Appeal 1969-71; Lord of Appeal in Ordinary 1971-5; cr. Law Life Peer 1971; a Governor of the school 1955-61; author (with G. R. Y. Radcliffe (qv)) of The English Legal System, 6th ed. pub. 1977; m. 23 Feb. 1952 Mildred Joan, d. of Maj. Theodore Eardley-Wilmot DSO, and widow of Thomas Walton Davies; d. 4 Aug. 1989.
CROSS, ROBERT CLIFFORD LLOYD, son of Maurice Cross, Comboconum, Madras, and Grace Eleanor Cottnam, dau. of Col. Robert Clifford Lloyd, 68th Foot; b. 2 Apr 1863; adm. (J) 27 Jan 1876; left Dec 1876; at Cheltenham Coll. 1877-9.
Cross, Weimar, brother of Wilson McCargo Cross (q.v.); b. June 28, 1901; adm. April 30, 1914 (A); left Dec. 1919; sales manager to Ault and Wiborg Ltd., ink manufacturers; director of the newsprint division of Bowaters Sales Company Ltd. in the United Kingdom 1957; m. Dec. 4, 1924, Margaret Douglas, daughter of Donald John Armour, C.M.G., F.R.C.S., of St. Marylebone; d. in New York, Oct. 25, 1961.
Cross, Wilson McCargo, son of Wilson Cross, of Kensington, by Rose, daughter of George Weimar; b. July 20, 1899; adm. Sept. 25, 1913 (A); left Dec. 1917; district manager of the Vacuum Oil Co., London; m. 1st Feb. 14, 1924, Pamela Gladys, daughter of Arthur Hildebrand Rawsden-Tagore, of Maida Vale, London; 2nd April 6, 1933, Joy Mignon Kenyon, younger daughter of Harcourt S. Middleton, of Mayfair; d. 16 May 1972.
CROSSE, ---; b.; adm.; QS in 1556 (Chapter Muniments 37713).
CROSSE, ANDREW FREDERICK, eldest son of Andrew Crosse, Fyne Court, Somerset, and his second wife Cornelia Augusta Hewitt, dau. of Capt. ---Berkeley, Exeter, Devon; b. 31 May 1852; adm. (G) 15 Jun 1865; left Whitsun 1867; went to Univ. Coll. Sch., London; an analytical chemist; afterwards went to Hungary, where he engaged in wine growing; emigrated to South Africa 1889, where he resumed his chemical work; living in Johannesburg; m.; d. 8 Dec 1925.
Crosse, John Ormandy, son of Brig. John Henry Joseph Crosse OBE RAMC, and Olive, d. of Walter Dodwell of Cheshunt, Herts; b. 4 Jan. 1936; adm. Sept. 1949 (A); left Apr. 1954; Queens’ Coll. Camb., matric. 1955, BA 1958; St Thomas’ Hosp. Med. Sch., MRCS LRCP 1962, MB BChir 1963; DTM&H 1965; an army med. practitioner, serving in Singapore, Colchester, Belfast, Berlin and Germany; Capt. RAMC Oct. 1963, Maj. Oct. 1968, Lieut. -Col. Oct. 1976, Col. Dec. 1987; SMO Shorncliffe, Dover, 1988-96; retd. Jan. 1996; m. 12 Aug. 1961 Elizabeth Ann, teacher, d. of Thomas Clifford Glanville, geologist; d. 5 Nov. 2016.